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Letters .Patent No. 81,446, amt; August 25,1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Be it known that I, SAMUELR. WHITLow, of Rosefield, in the county of Peoria, andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful compound, which I denouiinate the Golden-Age Cough-Mixture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the ingredients forming the compound,- the quantities of each, and the manner of compounding, making, and using the same, viz:

The ingredients and their respective quantities: a I Bayberry-bark, one ounce. Solomon-seed root, one ounc'e. Sarsaparilla, one ounce. Seneca snake-root, one ounce. Red bark, (Peruvian,) one ounce. Black-cherry bark, one ounce. Prickly-ash bark, one ounce. Spikenard-root, two (2) ounces. v Maidenhair-root, one ounce.

Blackberry-root, one ounce. w v v a v Oil of wintergreemone draehm. (This, viz, the Wintergreen, is to be added and mixed after the other ingredientshave been boiled.)

Pine-tar, one dessert-spoonful. Skunk-cabbage, one-half ounce. L'obelia, one-half ounce. Ginseng-root, one ounce. Comfrey-root, one ounce. Elecam'pane-root, one ounce. Hoarhouncl-leaves, one ounce. Wafer-ash hark, one ounce. White sugar, three (3) pounds; and Clear water, one and one-half gallon. 7

Mix the foregoing-described ingredients and. boil down to three (3) quarts, and after boiling and straining add one pint of Jamaica rum. When cold, it is ready to bottle. I I

Directions for Use. For an adult: Dose oue tablcspoonful to be taken three times each day, half' an hour before. meals and on retiring to bed at night. v

For a child .sixmonths old: Dose, fifteen (15) drops, three times each day, the last on going to bed, or oftene'r, if the case be severe. I

For a childone year old: Dose, two-thirds of a teaspoonful three times each day, and older children in t proportion.

No" water to be taken in any case for twenty (20) minutes after the mixture is taken.

I Claim. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to'secu'te' by Letters Patent, is-

The compound cough-mixture, prepared and compounded, and to be used substantially as described.

SAMUEL R. WHITLOW. Witnesses:

EDMUND THURLOW, J.' M. GocHRAx. 

